The following reply was made to PR port-sgimips/32160; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Herzog <daduke@daduke.org>
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, herzog@phys.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: port-sgimips/32160: mec0 network adapter on SGI O2 10k not working
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:02:41 +0100

 I now installed 3.0_RC5 and it works fine (even though I cannot find
 packages anywhere - only after release?), network and all.
 It now says phy 8.
 
 I think I'll just wait for 3.0 to become final. Question is whether big
 efforts should be made for 2.1 with 3.0 just ante portas.
 
 cheers,
 -Christian
 
 On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 09:47:02PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 > In article <20051204105501.BC1A463B884@narn.netbsd.org>
 > daduke@daduke.org wrote:
 > 
 > >  >  According to several posts of dmesg, it should be at mec0 phy 8,
 > >  >  and it shouldn't have 100baseT4.
 > >  with phy we are referring to the physical interface, right? If it were
 > >  connected to the wrong phy then I wonder why once or twice single
 > >  packets made it...
 > 
 > mii(4) is used for connecting network controllers to physical media
 > interfaces. Maybe the PHY is initialized somehow (but incomplete)
 > by the firmware?
 > 
 > >  >  Or could you try the attached patch?
 > >  can you recommend some howto or something on how to get started with BSD
 > >  kernel compilation?
 > 
 > Please refer docs under www.NetBSD.org:
 > 
 > How to get NetBSD:
 > http://www.NetBSD.org/Releases/
 > 
 > NetBSD release glossary and graphs
 > http://www.NetBSD.org/Releases/release-map.html
 > 
 > Obtaining the sources
 > http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-fetch.html
 > 
 > Crosscompiling NetBSD with build.sh:
 > http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-build.html
 > etc.
 > 
 > You could try netbsd-2 or netbsd-3 branches (or even -current).
 > ---
 > Izumi Tsutsui